Serena Starks

Photo by: Sideline Photos, LLC

Position:
Outfield
Height:
5-8
Class:
Senior
High School:
Edison
Hometown:
Huntington Beach, Calif.

Awards
Ivy League Player of the Year (2023)
First-team All-Ivy League (2023)
First-team NFCA All-Mid-Atlantic Region (2023)
Ivy League all-tournament team (2023)
Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete (2023)
First-team All-Ivy League (2022)
Honorable mention All-ECAC (2022)

At Princeton
2023
Won Ivy League Player of the Year honors, becoming the first Princeton player to win the honor since 2008 ... tri-captain ... earned first-team All-Ivy League and first-team NFCA all-region honors ... Ivy League all-tournament team ... led the Ivy League with a .397 average and 69 hits ... the 69 hits were the most for a Princeton player since 1996 ... won Ivy League Player of the Week honors on April 17 and May 8 ... had hits in 38 games and had 23 multi-hit games ... had hitting streaks of nine (Apr. 9-25) and eight (Mar. 15-29) games ... went hitless in consecutive games only once on the season, playing in and starting all 49 games ... drove in two runs in the series opener against Harvard on April 21 ... homered against Lehigh on March 12 ... Easton/NFCA All-America Scholar-Athlete honoree.

2022
First-team All-Ivy League ... honorable mention All-ECAC ... had a team-high .355 batting average on the season, leading the team with 54 hits ... played in all 46 games and started 45, all in the outfield ... had hits in 34 games, including all three games of the Ivy League Playoff Series and both NCAA tournament games, against Arkansas and Wichita State ... had 16 multi-hit games on the season and four three-hit games ... went 6 for 9 (.667) in the Ivy Playoff Series, closing it with a 3-for-3 day with two runs scored as Princeton clinched the NCAA tournament bid ... drove in four runs apiece against Yale on April 17 and Penn on April 24, homering in the Yale game ... had four hitting streaks of at least five games, including a pair of eight-game hitting streaks from March 20-April 2 (vs. Brown, Villanova, Harvard, Dartmouth) and April 13-24 (vs. Lehigh, Yale, Penn).

2021
Started all three games in the outfield ... had hits in each of the season's first two games, including a double against Villanova on April 29 and two hits in the opener against Drexel on May 4.

2020
Hit .529 (9-17) on the shortened season, playing in six games and starting four, all in left field ... had hits in five of six games played, including each of the last four games played ... had two hits against Georgetown on Feb. 28 and went 4 for 5 with three RBI and a double on March 1 against Morgan State ... the season was cut short due to the COVID-19 virus.

Before Princeton: Sunset League coaches' pick for Athlete of the Year ... 2019 Orange County Athletic Directors Association Athlete of Character ... member of the Edison Hall of Fame ... 2019 Edison Athlete of the Year honoree ... first-team All-Sunset League in 2017 and 2018 and second-team all-league in 2019 as selected by league coaches ... 2018 second-team All-Orange County ... played in the 2019 Orange County all-star game ... seven-time Sunset League and Edison Scholar-Athlete ... won the Edison Character Award for softball in 2017 and the 2019 Edison ASB Character Award ... 2018 MaxPreps National Honor Roll athlete ... earned second-team All-Sunset League honors in soccer in 2018 and was a 2019 team captain and co-MVP ... earned soccer team Most Inspirational Award in 2019 and Defensive Player of the Year honors in 2018 ... earned school's Charger of the Year academic honor and was the school's 2019 commencement speaker ... earned school's 2019 Golden Key honor for Athlete of the Year ... earned Most Outstanding honors with the school's Model United Nations club as a freshman, junior and senior ... earned several awards for community service, including the President's Volunteer Service award, the Girl Scouts of Orange County's Take Action award, and the Girl Scout's Gold Award ... was an ambassador for Humanity Rising and was a Best Buddies of Edison High School President in 2018-19 ... played travel ball with Tony Rico's Firecrackers.

Personal: Daughter of Millie Starks and Van Starks ... has sisters Savanna and Samantha ... student in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.